(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune)
David Lancaster, Couper Samuelson, Miles Teller, Paul Reiser, Damien Chazelle and Helen Estabrook at the premiere of "Whiplash," part of the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival, Thursday January 16, 2014 at the Eccles Theatre in Park City.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune)
David Lancaster, Couper Samuelson, Miles Teller, Paul Reiser, Damien Chazelle and Helen Estabrook at the premiere of "Whiplash," part of the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival, Thursday January 16, 2014 at the Eccles Theatre in Park City.

"My tradition for Sundance has pretty much been: Don't see the movie before Sundance. See it for the first time here. That's worked out well for me. The movies that I've done that with have done pretty well here. It's not superstitious. It's just a great place to see it. It's a great audience to watch a movie with."

Actor Mark Ruffalo

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"My thing that I would like to do at Sundance while I'm here that probably won't happen is get to meet Robert Redford."

Actor Marisa Tomei

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"It's nice to be at a screening and see Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell and be like, 'Yo Goldie, yo Kurt, how you doing?' "

Journalist/producer Katie Couric

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"Damien was on the half-pipe until 3 a.m. just shredding the powder pretty hard. It's really hard to get him off the half-pipe to talk about this film."